The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
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The morality of stealing that red liquorice.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗
Travelling on a tour bus.
A really bad habit of eating sweets before I go to sleep.
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
Fear of falling apart.
People not remembering who I am.
One handsome dude.
Shucking oysters one summer in Nice.
You have to go to the end of the line.
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
Daphne Guinness, Jodi Picoult, Elaine Paige, Donny Osmond, Victoria Pendleton, Busta Rhymes
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